The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has confirmed that a total of 154,225 patients have recovered from Corona virus disease (COVID-19) since its outbreak in the country in 2020. The NCDC disclosed this on its official Twitter handle on…
The WHO AFRO says more efforts are needed to scale up COVID-19 vaccination in the African Region as many African countries have barely moved beyond the starting line. According to it, less than two per cent of the world’s 690…
Kogi began vaccination against COVID-19 on Wednesday in Lokoja. First set of recipients of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines were health workers and frontline essential non-health workers. Newsmen reports that Kogi took delivery of 16, 900 doses of the vaccine on Monday.…
The National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) has identified Abia and Taraba states, as having the lowest number of COVID-19 vaccinated people, even as over 800,000 people had so far been vaccinated in the country, the NPHCDA said on…
Abimbola Abatta, Osogbo As part of the efforts to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, 30,000 vulnerable citizens in Osun State will benefit from Osun Food Support Scheme. The Scheme is part of the government’s initiative to cushion the…
The Federal Government is proposing to spend the sum of N396 billion for the COVID-19 vaccination in 2021 and 2022. The Minister of Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed disclosed this on Wednesday after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting,…
The Federal Ministry of Education says Nigeria has received 15 million dollars response grant from the Global Partnership on Education (GPE) for COVID-19 safe school reopening across the country. The Director, Basic and Secondary Education in the ministry, Hajia Binta…
The Students’ Union of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has embarked on sensitisation to create awareness on COVID-19 protocols and prevention. The union organised the sensitisation campaign as part of its 2021 Health Week, specifically dedicated to COVID-19. Miss Halimat…
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) on Wednesday in Abuja commenced the airlift of COVID-19 medical relief materials donated by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to its 14-member nations. The donation is with the support of donor partners…
The COVID-19 has pushed back global gender parity by a generation, according to a report published Wednesday by the World Economic Forum (WEF). The WEF estimates the time it will take to close the global gender gap has increased by…
